{"id":7979,"date":"2022-10-05T03:15:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T03:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/05\/its-official-bayonettas-og-voice-actor-wont-be-returning-for-the-third-outing\/"},"modified":"2022-10-05T03:15:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T03:15:04","slug":"its-official-bayonettas-og-voice-actor-wont-be-returning-for-the-third-outing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/05\/its-official-bayonettas-og-voice-actor-wont-be-returning-for-the-third-outing\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Official, Bayonetta&#8217;s OG Voice Actor Won&#8217;t Be Returning For The Third Outing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The voice of FemShep and Samus Aran steps up.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PlatinumGames has confirmed Hellena Taylor &#8211; the voice of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/bayonetta\">Bayonetta<\/a> in the first two games, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\">Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/a> and the animated movie <em>Bayonetta: Bloody Fate<\/em> &#8211; will not be reprising her role in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/bayonetta_3\">Bayonetta 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Game Informer, director Yusuke Miyata explained how &#8220;various overlapping circumstances&#8221; meant Taylor was unable to return for the third outing. The company held casting auditions, and that&#8217;s how Jennifer Hale scored the role. Here&#8217;s the full explanation (via Nintendo Everything):<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/10\/its-official-bayonettas-og-voice-actor-wont-be-returning-for-the-third-outing\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]It&#8217;s Official, Bayonetta&#8217;s OG Voice Actor Won&#8217;t Be Returning For The Third Outing<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The voice of FemShep and Samus Aran steps up.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PlatinumGames has confirmed Hellena Taylor &#8211; the voice of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/bayonetta\">Bayonetta<\/a> in the first two games, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\">Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/a> and the animated movie <em>Bayonetta: Bloody Fate<\/em> &#8211; will not be reprising her role in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/bayonetta_3\">Bayonetta 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Game Informer, director Yusuke Miyata explained how &#8220;various overlapping circumstances&#8221; meant Taylor was unable to return for the third outing. The company held casting auditions, and that&#8217;s how Jennifer Hale scored the role. Here&#8217;s the full explanation (via Nintendo Everything):<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/10\/its-official-bayonettas-og-voice-actor-wont-be-returning-for-the-third-outing\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}